World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Volume 1, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive review of the environmental condition of the seas of Europe, the Americas and West Africa. Each chapter is written by experts in the field and includes an historical overview of the sea concerned in environmental terms; uses to which it has been put and to which it is put today; its current environmental status and major problems arising from human use of both the sea and its watershed; informed comment on major trends, problems and successes; and recommendations for the future. World Seas is an invaluable worldwide reference source for students and researchers concerned with marine environmental science, fisheries, oceanography and engineering and coastal zone development.
1. The Seas around Greenland: An Environmental Status and Future Perspective
Frank Riget
2. Antarctica
Jonathan S. Stark
3. Norway
Chris Harman
4. The Baltic
Beata Szymczycha, Agata Zaborska, Jacek Beldowski, Karol Kulinski, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller, Monika Kedra and Janusz Pempkowiak
5. Bay of Biscay
Angel Borja
6. English Channel: La Manche
Jean-Claude Dauvin
7. The Portuguese Coast
Patricia Gonçalves Marques Cardoso Teixeira, Marina Dolbeth, Ronaldo Sousa, Rui O P Santos, Paulo Relvas, Alexandra Almeida Silva and Victor Quintino
8. Black Sea
Nadezhda Todorova, Sergey Alyomov, Brindusa Cristina Chiotoroiu, Bettina A. Fach, Tatyana Osadchaya, Miroslav Rangelov, Baris Salihoglu, Elena Stoica and Vasil Vasilev
9. Greece
Nomiki Simboura
10. Tunisia
Lofti Aleya, Béchir Bejaoui, Amell Dhib, Boutheina Ziadi, Mouna Fertouna-Bellekhal, Mohamed-Amine Helali, Inès Khedhri, Walid Oueslati, Rym Ennouri, Cintia Yamashita, Noureddine Zaaboub, Achref Othmani, Monia El Bour, Lamia Trabelsi, Mohamed Abdel-Daim, François Galgani, Maria Virgínia Alves Martins and Souad Turki
11. Italy
Roberto Danovaro
12. The Coasts of Turkey
Filiz Kucuksezgin
13. Canada North West Coast
Brenda Burd
14. Canada South West Coast
Brenda Burd
15. Chesapeake Bay
Donna Marie Bilkovic, Molly Mitchell, Kirk Havens and Carlton Hershner
16. North and South Carolina
Michael A. Mallin
17. Florida
Diego Lirman, Jerald Ault, James Warren Fourqurean and Jerome Lorenz
18. Gulf of Mexico
R. Eugene Turner
19. California
Kenneth C. Schiff
20. Canary Islands
Rodrigo Riera
21. Azores
Brian Morton
22. Bermuda
Struan R. Smith
23. Eastern Caribbean
Shannon Gore, Stuart P. Wynne and Andrew Myers
24. Trinidad and Tobago
Mohammed Azad
25. Bahamas
Alan Logan and Kathleen Sullivan Sealey
26. Turks & Caicos
Alan Logan and Kathleen Sullivan Sealey
27. Mexico Caribbean
Rodolfo Rioja Nieto, Joaquin Rodrigo Garza-Pérez, Ismael Mariño-Tapia, Cecilia Enriquez Enriquez and Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip
28. Mexico Pacific
Xavier Chiappa-Carrara, Cecilia Enriquez Enriquez, Vanesa Papiol, Ismael Marino-Tapia and Cristóbal Reyes-Hernández
29. Chile
Martin Thiel
30. Uruguay Río de la Plata
Pablo Muniz, Natalia Venturini, Alicia Acuña, Ernesto Brugnoli, Juan Manuel Gutiérrez and Felipe García-Rodríguez
31. Nicaragua Atlantic
Stephen Courtney Jameson
32. Nicaragua Pacific
Stephen Courtney Jameson
33. Northern Argentina
Jorge Marcovecchio
34. Southern Argentina: The Patagonian Continental Shelf
Monica Noemí Gil, Erica Giarratano, Vicente Ricardo Barros, Alejandro Bortolus, Jorge Osvaldo Codignotto, Ricardo Delfino Schenke, María Eva Góngora Sr., Gustavo Alejandro Lovrich, Alejandro Monti, Marcela Pascual, Andrés Luján Rivas and Alicia Tagliorette
35. Brazil Beef Region
Zelinda M A N Leao
36. Nigeria
Nenibarini Zabbey
37. Senegal
Baghdad Ouddane, Rachid Amara, Mamadou Diop and Cheikh Diop
Professor Charles Sheppard holds a half-time position of Professor in the School of Life Sciences at The University of Warwick, UK. The remainder of his time he works for a range of UN , Governmental and aid agencies in tropical marine and coastal development issues. He advises several governments on marine and coastal management and science, including the UK Government on its tropical Overseas Territories. He has organised and led the scientific input to the 2010 creation of the world's largest fully protected marine researce, in the Chagos archipelago, Indian Ocean, where a lot of his research has been focussed. The other main geographical area of research is the Arabian region. PhD University of Durham 1976.